Ridgeuel Cullem (1867–1943) is the pseudonym of American writer Sidney Graves Burchard. An adventurer by nature and a passionate adventurer, he left England at the age of seventeen and, struck by the gold rush in the Transvaal, went to South Africa. Many adventures befell the future writer. He fought in the Boer War, then, lured by the prospects of the Saguenay country, Canada's version of Eldorado, crossed the ocean to the Yukon, where he narrowly escaped starvation; later froze to death in the Klondike gold mines. Then he became a successful cattle breeder in Montana, took part in the uprising of the Sioux Indian tribes... After the success of his first novel “The Devil's Barrel” (1903), he decided to devote himself to writing and over forty years of creative activity he published over three dozen books, most of which can be attributed to Western genre. The action of the novels “Night Riders” and “Lawbreakers”, presented in this volume, takes place in the 19th century on the vast expanses of the Canadian prairies. Their heroes are cowboys and bandits.